Speaking of the FPJQ, the organization also does its elections during its annual conference. The candidate for president is a familiar name to anglo Montrealers: CTV’s Stéphane Giroux, who has been on the board for three years.

CBC executives appeared before the Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage on Tuesday. We didn’t learn much that’s new (mainly politicians questioning their competition for ad dollars and dealing with pet gripes), but I wrote a story about it anyway for Cartt.ca.

At the CRTC

The commission has released its annual Communications Monitoring Report. Look at all the statistics! There’s enough of them to push whatever agenda you want. But generally, traditional broadcasting is in slow decline, TV subscriptions are flat (as the population grows), and specialty TV channels generally still make a lot of money. One concerning statistic though, young people (ages 12-24) listen to half the traditional radio that other age groups do (partly because of technological changes, but party I’m thinking because that group doesn’t have cars).

The commission issued a series of mandatoryorders against broadcasters who were using licences for tourist information stations in Surrey, B.C., to broadcast general programming.

Went to see the progress of our new CBC station in Iqaluit.The studio is looking amazing! Move in date: Nov. 25th. pic.twitter.com/yc0Wu741aj

For those who wonder why the Maple Leafs always get CBC on Saturday nights, consider this: On opening weekend (albeit a big ceremonial home opener for Toronto), the Leafs-Bruins game had an audience of 1.5 million, while the Canadiens-Senators had half a million on City.

Cord cutting, while definitely a thing, hasn’t done to the TV industry what online advertising has done to the newspaper industry yet. A U.S. consulting firm says it’s overblown. And the CRTC numbers (see above) show that TV distribution is about flat, though as the population increases, the penetration rate drops. It’s now below 80% of households, but that’s still the vast majority.

Corus’s Toronto news-talker AM 640 has a new lineup that includes a morning show hosted by Matt Gurney (poached from the National Post) and Supriya Dwivedi (a freelancer who co-hosted the Canadaland Commons podcast), with Global Toronto’s Jeff McArthur as a contributor.

Parents went ballistic after the editorial board at a student newspaper in Colorado Springs endorsed Hillary Clinton for president, some even going so far as to insist the school board punish them in some way.

I don’t agree with punishing them; that’s too much. They’ll just learn the traditional way about being wrong. Fact is, Trump is on his way to winning a crushing majority of the electoral college.

The Corus station in Toronto has pretty much always been a loser. I can remember when they tried to do it as “radio for guys” or whatever, and that totally failed, even when they brought what was at the time one of the biggest morning duos (Humble and Fred) from the Edge to try to get things moving. For whatever reason, they seem totally unable to get traction in the marketplace.